Most PC's are fast enough for current applications. But, 16+ cores could easily change that, allowing applications that haven't even been thought of yet. (and not just a better gaming experience)
It wasn't that long ago where people were under the impression that 640k of memory was more than enough.
Compared to the USA, Australia is a paradise. It was even better before our previous Prime Minister virtually sold our soul's to that bastard currently running the USA into the ground. We are now signatories to the very same DRM goodness promulgated by the US legislature.
If you read RTFA, you would be aware that its a sister organisation to the RIAA making the waves here. (Heil indeed, you are probably from the same country that has a department called "homeland security". Now that really sounds like a facist organisation! (Papers please: Vot!, Dis is not a REALID(tm).
PS: Our previous prime minister has now got a permanent brown spot on the end of his nose from licking GW's arse!
PPS: Most of the shit Australia is in can be directly attributed to the USA. When the USA farts, the rest of the world needs to check to insure they didn't accidentally follow through!
By definition, 50% of the worlds population has an IQ that is "less" than ordinary... So, yes there are a LOT of idiots out there. Obviously, a fair percentage have also managed to post on various forums out there.:-)
Uhhh, $1 billion is 100 times $1 million. So she would've been back in 300 years, not 3000. People in stone houses shouldn't throw bricks moron. Don't tell me, you must work for NASA! (No wonder the USA is falling behind in science!)
I would have to disagree that wireless in Australia is generally awful. I am currently using 3g(HSPDA) from one of the local providers, and routinely see 200 kilobytes per second, sometimes bursting to 400 kilobytes/sec. A 2 gigabyte plan from my provider is approx $25 per month. (Okay, so I cannot effectively pirate movies on this... but for nearly everything else it is sufficient!)
This service seems to work just about everywhere in the Melbourne metropolitan area.
Might just be Telstra that are the problem. (As pointed out, Telstra management is now been subverted to arse-holes from the USA, who are attempting to suck as much money from the public without upgrading any network infrastructure.) Testra has had a bad image for some time, and its only getting worse! EG: They are currently being investigated for GPS tracking of their external plant maintenance people.)
IMHO, the privatisation of Telstra has not been a good thing for this country! Telstra used to support an R&D arm, directly employed over 90000 people (many in technical capacities). This is down to 25000 now (Few of these are tech positions.) The privatisation of Telstra appears in many ways to be the same as privatisation in Russia. (Mainly a few dishonest people gain a benefit, while the greater bulk of the population can all go and get stuffed!) The most curious thing about Telstra's privatisation was the money that was made. Sale of 1/4 of the network made more money (approx population at the time was 20e6) than the privatisation of some german telecomunications network, serving 54e6.... A big, convoluted subject...
The 2.4 GHz statement comes from believing someone without checking... Thanks.(I should have known better!) A bit like once being told that 24 GHz has problems during heavy rain, since many raindrops are about the right size to resonate at that frequency, and thus absorb some of the signal. Although 24 GHz is used by rain radar systems, it appears that 35 GHz is also used, so always check things before posting.
Engage brain before openg mouth. (or typing, it seems!)
AM radio spans roughly 1 MHz (IE: approx 530KHz to 1.6 MHz.) You CANNOT fit a broadband wireless service into that space... furthermore, the resonant antenna length for 1/4 wave varies between (approx) 150 metres to 40 metres. Like to see you stick that out of the back of your Laptop.
doubtful if you could effectively get one 54mbit channel in that space, plus, because it is NOT line of sight, someone a few miles away WILL interfere with your local transmissions.
Low frequencies (below about 2 MHz) hug the ground, this means AM does not have line of sight issues. Some AM broadcast stations have service areas of hundreds of miles (kilometers) (radius)
FM is 88.. 108 MHz. 1/4 wave here is roughly around 1 metre. Still a thumping huge antenna! These frequencies are considered line of sight, however, there is a small area extending beyond line of sight. Enough bandwidth for a few 54mbit channels.
WiFi is generally at 2.4 GHz. Same band as Microwave ovens use. Has to do with the frequency of maximum absorbance of water. (Thus used in ovens!)
1/w wavelength approx 4 cm... okay for Laptop, (easy)
To get sufficient bandwidth, only UHF and up is really useful. But, get too high in the microwave band and the signal wont even get through a thin wall.
So, there are trade offs that genuinely make sense for wireless broadband.
(lots more reasons as well...)
Several replies and no-one has really been on topic. Doesn't anybody care about the plight of the Tibetans?
I know Americans are all "gung ho" when it comes to invading countries that are important to it AKA Iraq, Vietnam... but surely this has not diminished your sense of pity for others. (Or, perhaps it does, seems that it might explain many mysterious things.)
China forced its way into Tibet quit some time ago, and now seem to be systematically destroying the Tibetan culture. Yet the Chinese shit in the face of anything that might detract from their own cultural identity.
Aren't you guys ashamed? Or have all your high falutin morals gone down the drain!
The "Green" LEDS you are alluding to only look green until you compare them to true green! When compared to true green, the LEDS we originally called green look very yellow/sickly.
Traffic signal green these days use "true" green LEDS, The things we used to call green leds were not the right colour, and were never suitable for use in traffic lights.
I must admit, I really like the true green leds, the colour is very stunning! I actually used 32 true green LEDs in a tiny (4.3" LCD, 480x272) monitor for backlighting the buttons. (Monitors main use... US police vehicles, digital video recorder.)
Actually, I'd call that a flaw in the documentation;). Too many people believe that your everyday "Delete" on a computer is absolutely permanent, and as such few take the time to "securely delete" sensitive data (ie, by overwriting it several times before removing the file system entry, the latter of which is the only thing done by a regular delete).
You obviously dont have a clue! What makes you think the operating system "overwrites" the file to the same place on the HDD? All you have done by "overwriting" the file is to create more copies of it on the HDD. The "DoD overwrite" is performed more like a low level format, and done on the entire media. It NOT something you can successfully apply from most OS file management utilities. The reason for the overwrite used to be that using drive forensics, data that had been stored for a long time would affect the magnetic domains beyond the edge of the written track. one overwrite would not effectively "reset" the data at (beyond really) the "accidental" data. To read back the data required special hardware to extract the signal. (Just for starters, the HDD head needs to be moved OFF its track slightly, and the signal thresholds need adjustment.) It is extremely unlikely that these techniques still work with modern disk drives due to the newer record head technologies employed.
So, except for floppy disks, DoD overwite is unlikely to be of much use in this day and age. (And, who uses floppies anymore?)
Phorm should be easily defeated. Just need a script to "harvest" various random sites, and have the script running in the background, clicking away merrily. Phorm will track this random spew and will not be able to differentiate your real traffic from the "noise".
Should call this script/program DEPHORM, guess it could easily ruin some halfwits dreams of embarrassing riches!
I recently worked on a data recorder for trains. (no voice, but train data + GPS co-ords, etc) are all stored on a CF card which is encased in a large aluminium block surounded by a good insulator, then encased in a heavy steel box, all inside a very strong case...)
It certainly survived all the standard test (like puncture, high temperatures for extended time periods, etc).
So, yes, this is very easy to do in this day and age. (Done again, it would undoubtedly be better to use SD cards, as these are even smaller than CF, require fewer connection to the interface and would make the insulation/protection even easier!
Easily fixed. First we modify all the old DC3's we can get our hands on by adding shuttle solid fuel boosters. Then we dress up as Aliens...
We then encourage all the COS members to migrate to Venus to separate them from the unclean non-believers.
IMHO, COS members are all "B Ark" material anyway!
So, they didn't call it the RIAa, in Europe... It was too close to IRA?
Seriously, the technology to filter gigabytes per second traffic looking for specific music signatures does not exist at a reasonable price point. And, as others have pointed out, simply Zipping the file would be enough to bypass any packet inspection anyway. (In fact, it would need to inspect the entire stream, because packet inspection would be insufficient!) (Let alone the variety of compression formats that currently exist.)
I would not be at all surprised that if you encode analog audio files to MP3 that each version would produce different digital streams. For digital files, the addition of several random bytes just before the stream to be encoded would produce the same result. (That is, totally different looking digital data streams.) At the very worst, the added few bytes might produce a click. (even that could be kept inaudible!) Alternatively, multiply the data by some small factor during encoding. (EG:Data * 0.995 would be inaudible, but the resultant MP3 stream would definitely not match any SIMPLE filtering stream.
IF the RIAA were to provide the filtering hardware to each and every ISP, that might get them to install it, given that filtering does not slow down the ISPs traffic.
If the filter isn't 100% effective, and falsely terminates legitimate streams, then the RIAA [IFPI] would be liable, not the ISP. Lets see how long the RIAA would last after that!
I would say that the RIAA needs to demonstrate to the courts that 100.00000000% accurate AUTOMATED detection (especially at the data rates an ISP might have!)is possible before they can even begin to suggest the ISP is involved. I will lay money down that they cannot even demonstrate 10% reliable detection rates. (Indeed, I personally think the ISP does not have the authority or the responsibility to inspect/filter any traffic.)
In fact, they are all closely related to the [small brained] trolls that post on slashdot. (although... they are more correctly called dwarfs. (which is politically incorrect, as dwarfs prefer the term "little people")... which still accurately defines the trolls...
The only counterfeit chips I have seen came from the "grey" market. The original manufacturer had obsoleted the device (an operational amplifier) but the project had been so long in development it was impractical to re-engineer a fully qualified design to use more modern parts. (Medical equipment takes a long time to get through all the relevant testing to ensure compliance!)
So, the use of one of the many obsolete parts vendors (companies that specialise in the supply of older parts, often bought as excess stock from other companies clearing their warehouses).
It goes without saying that many of these companies are based in Asia/China/Taiwan/Hong Kong. Anyway, many of these companies will attempt to source particular chips on request. Some requests are farmed out to a multitude of different third parties.... In this case, a vedor replied to the request, saying they could supply x thousand of the devices in question.
When the devices arrived, they were inserted into the required location on the pcb... but boards would not pass final test. Chips had correct looking branding, but further checking showed that the faults were all due to these amps. Original manufacturer was supplied with samples and the result was it was a rebranded "generic" OpAmp.
This is really only made possible because many opamps have the same pin outs. However, specifications vary between different types (IE: offset voltage, noise, gain, CMRR, bandwidth, etc)
Perhaps a relevance/trust worthiness flag or rating on articles, but the most reasonable/reliable page should be the top of the search.
There is a problem with vandalism, but much of that could be reduced by banning particular IP addresses. Like all society, 99% of damage is done by 1%. Filter out that 1% and the rest will become easy.
We will need to live with this until we have a reliable gene test that will allow us to cull the obnoxious ones at birth. (Need the same test for the Lawyer/politician gene as well;-)
Sorry, if you RTFA carefully, the Atom chip size is 25 square mm. This means its about 5mm by 5mm.
While intel did sell its PXA line of ARM uP's, it still makes a fairly large range of ARM processors, most of which clock at fairly impressive speeds. (Faster than most of the competitors ARM uP's) Easy to check, just go to the Intel site.
Even ARM processors start requiring a fair bit of power when the clock rate gets high.
ARM IS proprietary. The fact that every semi vendor appears to have ARM in its lineup just means they have licensed the arm core.
The ARM's that draw milliwatts from the supply are NOT the ARMs used in mobile phones... They are the "embedded" arms, running at less than 80 MHz. (they are still very nice chips, but, no go in a phone. These slower ARM's simply don't have enough grunt to perform the relevant speech compression algorithms. Most of these slower ARM's are ARM7 devices which do not have MMU's, making multi threaded apps significantly slower.
If Intel offer these new chips at a low enough price point, they probably will eventually drive ARM out of the market, but only if the ARM is denied access to 45/32/smaller geometries. This is not really likely. BUT, the development tools for the X86 architecture are MUCH better than dev tools for the ARM. This in its own right will ensure future development for many apps will use low power x86 devices.
It strikes me that M$ is only utilising the very same model that is used in the USA, where might has right. As an external (to the USA) observer the "corrupt" M$ techniques mirror the USA congress lobbying techniques very closely.
To quote the [very] old Superman TV series. Truth, Justice... and the American way.
This all just proves that the people "charged with our"security" are fucked in the head!
Now, any terrorist that wants to cause grief in the UK knows that he had better take the channel tunnel, and not fly into Heathrow!
I dont really understand how these things get approved by the relevant authorities either. I mean, surely these people realise that the way society is being driven down the road of extreme paranioa will have very dramatic negative effects on their own children, let alone the "evil" little bastards down the street!
Slashdot Mirror
Thats sort of like the old Disney classic ... TRON.
/. want a remake ... To be called PRON.
However, looks like most of the Nerds on
Most PC's are fast enough for current applications. But, 16+ cores could easily change that, allowing applications that haven't even been thought of yet. (and not just a better gaming experience)
It wasn't that long ago where people were under the impression that 640k of memory was more than enough.
Compared to the USA, Australia is a paradise. It was even better before our previous Prime Minister virtually sold our soul's to that bastard currently running the USA into the ground. We are now signatories to the very same DRM goodness promulgated by the US legislature.
/. look & feel?
If you read RTFA, you would be aware that its a sister organisation to the RIAA making the waves here. (Heil indeed, you are probably from the same country that has a department called "homeland security". Now that really sounds like a facist organisation! (Papers please: Vot!, Dis is not a REALID(tm).
PS: Our previous prime minister has now got a permanent brown spot on the end of his nose from licking GW's arse!
PPS: Most of the shit Australia is in can be directly attributed to the USA. When the USA farts, the rest of the world needs to check to insure they didn't accidentally follow through!
Whats with the new
By definition, 50% of the worlds population has an IQ that is "less" than ordinary ... So, yes there are a LOT of idiots out there. Obviously, a fair percentage have also managed to post on various forums out there. :-)
'X' = an unknown quantity ... and we all know what 'P' is. (Relates to drinking lots of beer!)
Of course, I should point out that "slash" in Australia is slang for 'P', so what does slashdot mean in that context?
I would have to disagree that wireless in Australia is generally awful. I am currently using 3g(HSPDA) from one of the local providers, and routinely see 200 kilobytes per second, sometimes bursting to 400 kilobytes/sec. A 2 gigabyte plan from my provider is approx $25 per month. (Okay, so I cannot effectively pirate movies on this ... but for nearly everything else it is sufficient!)
... A big, convoluted subject ...
This service seems to work just about everywhere in the Melbourne metropolitan area.
Might just be Telstra that are the problem. (As pointed out, Telstra management is now been subverted to arse-holes from the USA, who are attempting to suck as much money from the public without upgrading any network infrastructure.) Testra has had a bad image for some time, and its only getting worse! EG: They are currently being investigated for GPS tracking of their external plant maintenance people.)
IMHO, the privatisation of Telstra has not been a good thing for this country! Telstra used to support an R&D arm, directly employed over 90000 people (many in technical capacities). This is down to 25000 now (Few of these are tech positions.) The privatisation of Telstra appears in many ways to be the same as privatisation in Russia. (Mainly a few dishonest people gain a benefit, while the greater bulk of the population can all go and get stuffed!) The most curious thing about Telstra's privatisation was the money that was made. Sale of 1/4 of the network made more money (approx population at the time was 20e6) than the privatisation of some german telecomunications network, serving 54e6.
The 2.4 GHz statement comes from believing someone without checking ... Thanks.(I should have known better!) A bit like once being told that 24 GHz has problems during heavy rain, since many raindrops are about the right size to resonate at that frequency, and thus absorb some of the signal. Although 24 GHz is used by rain radar systems, it appears that 35 GHz is also used, so always check things before posting.
Engage brain before openg mouth. (or typing, it seems!)
AM radio spans roughly 1 MHz (IE: approx 530KHz to 1.6 MHz.) You CANNOT fit a broadband wireless service into that space ... furthermore, the resonant antenna length for 1/4 wave varies between (approx) 150 metres to 40 metres. Like to see you stick that out of the back of your Laptop.
... okay for Laptop, (easy)
...)
doubtful if you could effectively get one 54mbit channel in that space, plus, because it is NOT line of sight, someone a few miles away WILL interfere with your local transmissions.
Low frequencies (below about 2 MHz) hug the ground, this means AM does not have line of sight issues. Some AM broadcast stations have service areas of hundreds of miles (kilometers) (radius)
FM is 88.. 108 MHz. 1/4 wave here is roughly around 1 metre. Still a thumping huge antenna! These frequencies are considered line of sight, however, there is a small area extending beyond line of sight. Enough bandwidth for a few 54mbit channels.
WiFi is generally at 2.4 GHz. Same band as Microwave ovens use. Has to do with the frequency of maximum absorbance of water. (Thus used in ovens!) 1/w wavelength approx 4 cm
To get sufficient bandwidth, only UHF and up is really useful. But, get too high in the microwave band and the signal wont even get through a thin wall.
So, there are trade offs that genuinely make sense for wireless broadband. (lots more reasons as well
Several replies and no-one has really been on topic. Doesn't anybody care about the plight of the Tibetans?
... but surely this has not diminished your sense of pity for others. (Or, perhaps it does, seems that it might explain many mysterious things.)
I know Americans are all "gung ho" when it comes to invading countries that are important to it AKA Iraq, Vietnam
China forced its way into Tibet quit some time ago, and now seem to be systematically destroying the Tibetan culture. Yet the Chinese shit in the face of anything that might detract from their own cultural identity.
Aren't you guys ashamed? Or have all your high falutin morals gone down the drain!
The "Green" LEDS you are alluding to only look green until you compare them to true green! When compared to true green, the LEDS we originally called green look very yellow/sickly.
... US police vehicles, digital video recorder.)
Traffic signal green these days use "true" green LEDS, The things we used to call green leds were not the right colour, and were never suitable for use in traffic lights.
I must admit, I really like the true green leds, the colour is very stunning! I actually used 32 true green LEDs in a tiny (4.3" LCD, 480x272) monitor for backlighting the buttons. (Monitors main use
Yes. Only in the US would there be an attempt to legislate that PI = 3.2
... the rest of the world isn't that much better either.
Mind you
By definition, 50% of the world's population has an IQ of less than 100.
You obviously dont have a clue! What makes you think the operating system "overwrites" the file to the same place on the HDD? All you have done by "overwriting" the file is to create more copies of it on the HDD. The "DoD overwrite" is performed more like a low level format, and done on the entire media. It NOT something you can successfully apply from most OS file management utilities.
The reason for the overwrite used to be that using drive forensics, data that had been stored for a long time would affect the magnetic domains beyond the edge of the written track. one overwrite would not effectively "reset" the data at (beyond really) the "accidental" data. To read back the data required special hardware to extract the signal. (Just for starters, the HDD head needs to be moved OFF its track slightly, and the signal thresholds need adjustment.) It is extremely unlikely that these techniques still work with modern disk drives due to the newer record head technologies employed.
So, except for floppy disks, DoD overwite is unlikely to be of much use in this day and age. (And, who uses floppies anymore?)
Phorm should be easily defeated. Just need a script to "harvest" various random sites, and have the script running in the background, clicking away merrily. Phorm will track this random spew and will not be able to differentiate your real traffic from the "noise".
Should call this script/program DEPHORM, guess it could easily ruin some halfwits dreams of embarrassing riches!
I recently worked on a data recorder for trains. (no voice, but train data + GPS co-ords, etc) are all stored on a CF card which is encased in a large aluminium block surounded by a good insulator, then encased in a heavy steel box, all inside a very strong case ...)
It certainly survived all the standard test (like puncture, high temperatures for extended time periods, etc).
So, yes, this is very easy to do in this day and age. (Done again, it would undoubtedly be better to use SD cards, as these are even smaller than CF, require fewer connection to the interface and would make the insulation/protection even easier!
Easily fixed. First we modify all the old DC3's we can get our hands on by adding shuttle solid fuel boosters. Then we dress up as Aliens ...
We then encourage all the COS members to migrate to Venus to separate them from the unclean non-believers.
IMHO, COS members are all "B Ark" material anyway!
So, they didn't call it the RIAa, in Europe ... It was too close to IRA?
Seriously, the technology to filter gigabytes per second traffic looking for specific music signatures does not exist at a reasonable price point. And, as others have pointed out, simply Zipping the file would be enough to bypass any packet inspection anyway. (In fact, it would need to inspect the entire stream, because packet inspection would be insufficient!) (Let alone the variety of compression formats that currently exist.)
I would not be at all surprised that if you encode analog audio files to MP3 that each version would produce different digital streams. For digital files, the addition of several random bytes just before the stream to be encoded would produce the same result. (That is, totally different looking digital data streams.) At the very worst, the added few bytes might produce a click. (even that could be kept inaudible!)
Alternatively, multiply the data by some small factor during encoding. (EG:Data * 0.995 would be inaudible, but the resultant MP3 stream would definitely not match any SIMPLE filtering stream.
IF the RIAA were to provide the filtering hardware to each and every ISP, that might get them to install it, given that filtering does not slow down the ISPs traffic.
If the filter isn't 100% effective, and falsely terminates legitimate streams, then the RIAA [IFPI] would be liable, not the ISP. Lets see how long the RIAA would last after that!
I would say that the RIAA needs to demonstrate to the courts that 100.00000000% accurate AUTOMATED detection (especially at the data rates an ISP might have!)is possible before they can even begin to suggest the ISP is involved. I will lay money down that they cannot even demonstrate 10% reliable detection rates. (Indeed, I personally think the ISP does not have the authority or the responsibility to inspect/filter any traffic.)
In fact, they are all closely related to the [small brained] trolls that post on slashdot. (although ... they are more correctly called dwarfs. (which is politically incorrect, as dwarfs prefer the term "little people") ... which still accurately defines the trolls ...
Small things amuse small minds!
Robot Wars was awesome! It aired here in Australia several years ago (or perhaps it was on cable?). Whatever, was definitely worth watching.
I vaguely rememember seeing the US variant, but only one episode. Certainly the UK variant had better presentation.
The only counterfeit chips I have seen came from the "grey" market. The original manufacturer had obsoleted the device (an operational amplifier) but the project had been so long in development it was impractical to re-engineer a fully qualified design to use more modern parts. (Medical equipment takes a long time to get through all the relevant testing to ensure compliance!)
... In this case, a vedor replied to the request, saying they could supply x thousand of the devices in question.
... but boards would not pass final test. Chips had correct looking branding, but further checking showed that the faults were all due to these amps. Original manufacturer was supplied with samples and the result was it was a rebranded "generic" OpAmp.
So, the use of one of the many obsolete parts vendors (companies that specialise in the supply of older parts, often bought as excess stock from other companies clearing their warehouses).
It goes without saying that many of these companies are based in Asia/China/Taiwan/Hong Kong. Anyway, many of these companies will attempt to source particular chips on request. Some requests are farmed out to a multitude of different third parties.
When the devices arrived, they were inserted into the required location on the pcb
This is really only made possible because many opamps have the same pin outs. However, specifications vary between different types (IE: offset voltage, noise, gain, CMRR, bandwidth, etc)
Well, if it pulls itself to bits, we will know its sexual orientation!
My sentiments exactly!
;-)
Perhaps a relevance/trust worthiness flag or rating on articles, but the most reasonable/reliable page should be the top of the search.
There is a problem with vandalism, but much of that could be reduced by banning particular IP addresses. Like all society, 99% of damage is done by 1%. Filter out that 1% and the rest will become easy.
We will need to live with this until we have a reliable gene test that will allow us to cull the obnoxious ones at birth. (Need the same test for the Lawyer/politician gene as well
Sorry, if you RTFA carefully, the Atom chip size is 25 square mm. This means its about 5mm by 5mm.
... They are the "embedded" arms, running at less than 80 MHz. (they are still very nice chips, but, no go in a phone. These slower ARM's simply don't have enough grunt to perform the relevant speech compression algorithms. Most of these slower ARM's are ARM7 devices which do not have MMU's, making multi threaded apps significantly slower.
While intel did sell its PXA line of ARM uP's, it still makes a fairly large range of ARM processors, most of which clock at fairly impressive speeds. (Faster than most of the competitors ARM uP's) Easy to check, just go to the Intel site.
Even ARM processors start requiring a fair bit of power when the clock rate gets high.
ARM IS proprietary. The fact that every semi vendor appears to have ARM in its lineup just means they have licensed the arm core.
The ARM's that draw milliwatts from the supply are NOT the ARMs used in mobile phones
If Intel offer these new chips at a low enough price point, they probably will eventually drive ARM out of the market, but only if the ARM is denied access to 45/32/smaller geometries. This is not really likely. BUT, the development tools for the X86 architecture are MUCH better than dev tools for the ARM. This in its own right will ensure future development for many apps will use low power x86 devices.
It strikes me that M$ is only utilising the very same model that is used in the USA, where might has right. As an external (to the USA) observer the "corrupt" M$ techniques mirror the USA congress lobbying techniques very closely.
... and the American way.
To quote the [very] old Superman TV series. Truth, Justice
This all just proves that the people "charged with our"security" are fucked in the head!
Now, any terrorist that wants to cause grief in the UK knows that he had better take the channel tunnel, and not fly into Heathrow!
I dont really understand how these things get approved by the relevant authorities either. I mean, surely these people realise that the way society is being driven down the road of extreme paranioa will have very dramatic negative effects on their own children, let alone the "evil" little bastards down the street!